nowhere else. The name la not nncomrnon Claudia. may either have learnt Christianity as e. Greek name, and appears also in the from Pomponia, or me.y he.ve conveyed the patronymic Eubulides, and the female name knowledge of the gospel to her. On the Eubuk. And Pudena, and Linus, and Claudia. oth,,r hailll, the name of I'uden• appears on Of these persons Linus is probably the ~e.rne the Goodwood inscription aa having given, as is mentioned by lrenama and.Eusebin8 e.8 while still a heathe11, e. site for a temple the first Bishop of Rome. Irenama (iii.111, 3) of Neptnne and Minerva. which we.s bnilt say■, " Wl,en the apostles, therefore, had "pro salute." of the imperial family nnder founded the Church (of Rome) they entrusted the e.uthority of King Cogidubnus-cnri- the office (ll.E1Tovp-yl11v) oC lhe episcopate to ously connecting him with the British king. Linus, of whom Paul makes mention in bis It is probable that Pudene and Claudia. were Epistles to Timothy." Eusebius (' Ecc. not yet married. Thus it will be seen that, Hist.,' iii. 2) se.ys, " Linus was ordained the while this theory is borne out by many first Bishop of Rome (,rpwTo< ,o.11pov-ra1 T¾JV coinciJences, it cannot by any means be bratr1<0,r~v) e.fter the me.rtyrdorn of Paul e.nd adopted as certain (Hee Dean Alford's ~ Peter" (see, too, § 4 of the ea.me book). cusaus in the ' Proleg. to 2 Tim.;' and Cony- Some ideatify him with a certain Llin in beare and Howson's • Life of St. Paul,' vol. Welsh hRgiogre.phy, said to be the son of ii. p. 501). Lewin (' Life e.nd Epist. of St. Care.cte.cus. As regards Pudem and Claudia, Paul,' vol. ii. p. 392) we.rmly esponses the nothing is known about them ·unless the theory, but hesitates betwe~n Caractacns very ingenious e.nd interesting theory of e.nd Cogiclubnus e.s the father of Claudia.. Archdeacon Willie.ms is tme, which is neces- Farrar rejects the whole theory "a.a an sarily very uncerte.in. According to this elaborate rope of aand" (' Life of St. Paul,' theory, Olaudia is thef<Yreign lady,e. Briton, vol. ii. p. 569). If Linne wa.s the eon, and "·hose me.rrie.ge with Pudens is spoken of by Claudia. the daughter, of Caractacus, they Martie.I in two epigre.ms, e.nd who e.lso bore would be brutber and sister. the cognomen of Rufina. It is •upposed that Ver. 22.-The Lord for the Lord J-, she was the daughter of the British king Christ, A.V. e.nd T.R. The Lord be with Cogidubuus, the ally of the Romans aud thy spirit, etc. The manuscripts vary. The of the Roman governor, Aulus Plautius, sa.lute.tion as it stands in the R.T. i■ like whose wife Pomponia is ea.id by Tacitus to the versicles, "The Lord be with you. A. have been impeached of the crime of em- And with thy spirit." It is a. peculiarity of bre.oing a "forei~n 8Uperetition," which we.a the salnta.tion here that it i■ double-one to probe.bly Christianity. Cogidubnus appears Timothy personally, /LETO..,..;; 1rv,6,.a.-rds trov; by an ancient inscription now at Goodwood the other to the Church, ;, xap1S ,.,e' ~,..,v. to have taken the ne.me of the Emperor l Cor. xvi. 24 exhibits another variety. Claudius, being called Tiberius Claudius Gre.ce (see l Tim. vi. 21, note). The R.T. Cogidubnus, which would naturally lee.d omits the "e.men" at the end, e.s in l Tim. to his daughter being called ( laudia.. And vi. 21. Thns closes our le.at authentic ac- if further she was adopted by the wife of count of this great apostle; these a.re, per- her father's ally, the naml! Rufina. would be haps, the last words or him who wrought a accounted for, a8 a distinguished branch or greater che.nge in the condition of me.nkind the gene Pomponi& bore the name of Rufus. by his speech th,m e.ny man that ever lived. And Martial'e epigram is addressed to Al I honour hA tn his blessed memory I "Rufus," aa one intere.ted in the ma.rrie.ge. 1
HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-8.-The last charge. The words of this l'hapter have the peculiar interest which attaches to the last words of one who was pru1ninent above his fellow-men, and they have this striking character, that the apostle, knowing that the time of his departure was at hand, when the great work of his life must cease as far as he was concerned, was intensely solicitous that the work should go on after bis death with uninterrupted tourse and with undiminished force. It is one of the f, atnres of tbe holy unseltishnt'ss ~f St. Paul's character that he was not anxious for the succt'ss ot the gospel only as far as tbat success was connected with his own le.hours, and was the fr11it of his own apostolic energy; but that the growth of Christ'& kingdom, and the increase of Christ's Ohurch, and the salvation of souls, were things that he intensely luuged for for their own sake, and without the slightest refL"rence to himself. Accordingly, in the word, before U8, he throws his whole soul intu the task of urging Timothy to carry ou the WPJk of the nii11i,try with a. vigour equal to his own. By the lllC.'8t soh,wn motives. THE SECOND EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY. [co. 1v. 1--12.